An Ultra-Simple Tourniquet That’s Saving Soldiers’ Lives
When you think of surgery, images of calm doctors working on anesthetized patients in pristine operating rooms come to mind. Combat medics face a different reality. They often ply their trade on dusty desert roads, and, when trying to save a soldier’s life, a charred Humvee door sometimes has to suffice for an operating table.

June 24, 2014 at 2:45AM
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Why TV captions are still so terebel
Machine translation is responsible for much of today’s closed-captioning and subtitling of broadcast and online streaming video. It can’t register sarcasm, context, or word emphasis. It can’t capture the cacophonous sounds of multiple voices speaking at once, essential for understand the voice of an angry crowd of protestors or a cheering crowd. It just types what it registers.

June 23, 2014 at 9:10PM
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Sex and Silicon Valley: the veritable arms race of the dating app industry
The bay area tech boom has given many of the industry’s workers money, confidence and a hedonistic tinge.

June 23, 2014 at 3:37PM
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How to build a Tesla, according to Tesla
Ever since Tesla chief executive Elon Musk offered to give away  the firm’s electric car patents for free, the rest of the auto industry has leapt on the technology. Among those lining up outside Musk’s door? Some of the biggest names in cars, such as BMW and Nissan. But just what is in Musk’s patent portfolio that has them so excited? A lot of what you need to know to actually build a Tesla, for starters.

June 23, 2014 at 1:23PM
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How Disney built and programmed an animatronic president
Before programming languages and systems on a chip, there was voltage and sound.

June 23, 2014 at 12:26PM
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Your Phone Just Got Sucked
It’s a spy war that Q, James Bond’s fictional techno-wizard, would envy. On one side are the world’s major spy services, including those of China, Russia, Israel, France and now Iran. Arrayed against them are technical teams from the FBI and U.S. Secret Service, backed up by the NSA and the CIA.

June 23, 2014 at 8:53AM
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The Military Now Has X-Ray Guns
Superman had X-ray vision. Now, so does the United States military, in the form of an X-ray gun that can see through fabric, rubber and aluminum to find drugs, money, explosive liquids and even people.

June 23, 2014 at 7:43AM
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Online identity companies to cash in on porn panic
Veridu promises it is not storing the data it analyses, nor using it for any purpose other than to deliver a token at the end of the process that the user can then take away and show to adult content sites — all it will say is whether that person has been verified as over 18, and how robust that conclusion is on a specific scale.

June 23, 2014 at 4:12AM
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Unblinking Eyes Track Employees
Advanced technological tools are beginning to make it possible to measure and monitor employees as never before, raising concerns about privacy and the specter of unchecked surveillance in the workplace.

June 23, 2014 at 2:09AM
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The Inside Story Of Yo: There Isn’t Actually $1 Million In The Bank
Yo launched quietly on April Fools Day, but Apple rejected its App Store application. Yo lacked substance, Apple argued. The pair fought back and defended Yo’s simplicity. Eventually, Yo was published.

June 23, 2014 at 1:09AM
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